the unrealistic treatment that guns get in this show about a headless horseman who is a harbinger of the apocalypse in a world where a witch put a spell on her BF to make him sleep 200 years really bothers me.

Blank-firing prop guns are considered very dangerous, and as such command a very high liability insurance from the studio.

So 99% of the time, you are seeing either a dummy gun with a computer generated "flash", or a dummy gun with a "propane" flash.

The F/X version generate no sound at all, so the studio get to add whatever they want in post..... and yes, they add in whatever is the "coolest" sound. The propane versions make the wrong sound, and is typically dubbed in post as well.

It all used to bother me when I was younger. Not as much as when movies use paintguns as "futuristic firearms". lol

Even if they are firing actual blanks (or even more rare, real live rounds), they usually don't directly record the gun's audio because of how badly it will clip and distort compared to the actors and other stuff. So even those will be a post processing audio pass.

However, I think a more interesting (and possibly far shorter) thread might be one on shows or movies that handle weapons very well.

the unrealistic treatment that guns get in this show about a headless horseman who is a harbinger of the apocalypse in a world where a witch put a spell on her BF to make him sleep 200 years really bothers me.

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the unrealistic treatment that guns get in this show about a headless horseman who is a harbinger of the apocalypse in a world where a witch put a spell on her BF to make him sleep 200 years really bothers me.

I believe we have no SMEs on anything in that sentence but guns, horses and sleeping.

As such, those other things may be getting executed incorrectly but we don't know.